Lincoln, Roosevelt - and Mozart??
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had something in common:
Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, sadly short of the ensuing unification of North and South he so assiduously wished for; a dream denied.
Roosevelt died just eighteen days before the suicide of Adolf Hitler and less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany; again, realities denied him.
Mozart died as he approached his 35th year, before one of his most sublime expressions, the Requiem, could be completed.
I sometimes think of these three because of the poignancy I attach to the impact of consummation of such elemental missions being denied them by the powers of circumstance.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, sadly short of the ensuing unification of North and South he so assiduously wished for; a dream denied.
Roosevelt died just eighteen days before the suicide of Adolf Hitler and less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany; again, realities denied him.
Mozart died as he approached his 35th year, before one of his most sublime expressions, the Requiem, could be completed.
I sometimes think of these three because of the poignancy I attach to the impact of consummation of such elemental missions being denied them by the powers of circumstance.
Labels: unrealized dreams...
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